I have never had the chance to play against my old club before in my professional career.

I played against Harlequins for Cardiff Blues and Racing before I moved to this club.

So it will be quite an alien experience. It will just be a great opportunity to play against some lads I am more used to playing with.

Adam Jones: I am not playing this weekend personally but it promises to be a great game. When you have the Wales and England confrontations they are always very feisty.

We are a good team who are in good form and are top of the Challenge Cup group for a reason. We are confident of the win but the Blues have been good recently and they will come down here with their tails up.

Looking forward, Danny Wilson (current Blues head coach) was my first coach at Rumney RFC. There is a fact of the day for you! He was the coach there with Gafyn Cooper who is now the Blues team manager.

He is a good bloke and I have a lot of respect for him and what he is trying to achieve. He’s a good coach and having spoken to a lot of the boys there, they are buying into what Danny is about and what he is trying to achieve.

AJ: It was a bit different for me because I only spent last season there after joining from the Ospreys.

It was a weird time regarding my international situation and my contract. I was thankful to the likes of Peter Thomas, Richard Holland and Mark Hammett who gave me a chance when I was at a low ebb. So I will always be grateful to the Blues.

WO: Your Harlequins team-mate Mike Brown is the English player the Welsh fans love to hate. What is he really like?!

AJ: He is a good boy. I know the Welsh might love to hate him but he’s not nearly as bad as he is made out to be. I would have been one of the first guys to think when you played against him that he was a real idiot.

But he is a nice guy and he takes all the banter on the chin. He’s also a very good player. He is one of six Harlequins players who made the England squad so that’s good to see.

JR: He is a top chap. He did THAT interview after the World Cup which was pure ammunition for all Welsh rugby fans! He is an angry man but it’s great to see that passion about what he does!

Mike Brown and Sam Warburton square up with Jamie Roberts trying to act as peacemaker

As a Welshman in London I am trying to act as his liaison officer and peacemaker with the Welsh! It’s funny and a bit of banter and he is loving it. I sent out a tongue in cheek tweet last week along the lines of explaining how he wanted to build bridges with the Welsh. As a result of that he probably took more stick than he has had before. I didn’t see that coming (honestly!).

WO: How would assess your time with Harlequins so far?

JR: I’m really enjoying it. It has gone so quickly and I am just trying to take it all in.

The guys are a great crack and the whole set-up is all very professional for the players and the support staff have been magnificent too.

You would walk into the medical room and there are five or six physios at work while at Racing you would have just two.

AJ: This is a great club. I initially signed a one-year deal and have signed for an extra year until the summer of 2017.

It was something I was hoping for when I first signed and I am glad to have sorted it out so early. I didn’t want it to be hanging on and have any uncertainty. Conor O’Shea (director of rugby) and John Kingston (head coach) told me they wanted me for another season and it happened.

WO: What is different about Harlequins and playing in the Aviva Premiership?

JR: Every club is different. What I find is that here the days are quite busy and you are always concerned with making meetings and meeting deadlines.

I contrast that to Racing over the last couple of years where there was a big gap between 12 noon and 3pm.

There is a bigger squad here as well to cope with all the games. I can’t say much about the Aviva Premiership standard or style of play just yet because I have only played three games in the competition.

But what you find up here is that it is like that most weeks. The relegation aspect also adds to things and you have sides scrapping for points so every game towards the end of the season will mean something with teams battling for survival, Europe or the play-off places.

We had the big game against Gloucester at Twickenham in front of 80,000 people so they definitely know how to put a show on.

The Saracens game last weekend really took me back a bit about how wonderful the atmosphere was.

I text Alun Wyn Jones after the game and told him I likened it to when the Ospreys played the Scarlets on Boxing Day at Stradey Park with a full house and a hostile atmosphere. It was a real humdinger, a few cheap shots and citings. It was a great game and I loved it. And we won.

JR: It’s great. I have bought a flat with my best mate growing up Rhys who is a now criminal barrister in London. We have been good mates growing up so we know each other well, since we were four. It is in Wandsworth so we are just eight minutes into the heart of the city.

AJ: It’s a lot different to back home but it’s great. For example, after this I am off to watch Phantom of the Opera in the West End. Brilliant!